books.google.com - The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glorious...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dating_of_Beowulf.html?id=kWs1Wvp0otAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Dating of Beowulf